Microsoft Inadvertently Confirms Gears of War Trilogy Options

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Microsoft Inadvertently Confirms Gears of War Trilogy Posted by XanTium | November 21 16:49 EST

From teamxbox.com: [QUOTE] On several occasions, CliffyB has been asked about a follow-up to Gears of War but he has avoided confirming a sequel. Despite that, it seems that Microsoft is already counting on a Gears of War trilogy. In an interview with GameDaily, Jeff Bell, the Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing for the Interactive Entertainment Business unit at Microsoft, has accidentally confirmed that the publisher plans a trilogy of games set in the Gears of War universe. Speaking on the "Mad World" commercial, Bell said: "The goal of this ad is to establish Marcus Fenix as the hero of the Gears of War trilogy." [/QUOTE] Read More: teamxbox.com

[mrdan]

No surprise here. GoW is a cash cow.

[0794]

wow, that's strange...quite early in the franchise...

[Dr Donkey Kong]

trilogy?!?!?

THERE'S ONLY GOING TO BE THREE!!! AHHHHHHHH

[jacksprat1990]

Interesting


This post has been edited by jacksprat1990: Nov 21 2006, 10:17 PM

[HSDEMONZ]

wow, that's strange...quite early in the franchise...

.. not strange at all.

Long before this was released.. back in the days when this was supposed to be a 360 launch title I'm sure plans were made to tell the story in multiple segments. any really good story.. is well planned and conceived ahead of time.

It's far too expensive these days to wing it.

[The Zep Man]

Bill G.: Jeff Bell, you have failed me for the last time!

*to a henchman* Send Jeff Bell to our remote observation outpost in Alaska on the double. By the end of the week, we will also send him his clothes.

Steve B.: Thy will be done, me lord.

[thax]

I personally can't wait for the movie and the Burger King Gears of War combo.

[flashfreak]

I havn't had a chance to play it yet, but am dying to play it after some in game footage i realised i missed. I can't wait and a trilogy sounds amazing. The good thing is, i reckon they could use the same engine, cos if its just a continuation of the same story, the game could be exactly the same with a different story, maybe more advanced mutliplayer or suttin.

I dunno if anyone gets what im getting at, but from what i've seen, its awesome and i don't think they need to change it heaps like what has been done with halo, cos there is a lot of room for error there. I reckon this could really work well

[Grentz]

No surprise to me. The ending on GOW is left WIDE open (you know what i mean if you get there).

It is totally setup for a sequel....

[pdottz]

agreed.

a trilogy is a nice way to tell a complete story. no rush needed. if nothing else, hardcore fans will be loyal to the series as long as the game maintains its roots and doesn't go all over the place.

[ATrillionaire]

I hope one is a prequel, because the game really does call for one. The game starts off 14yrs after emergence day, so I would like to have the game start when the enemies actually invade earth. Plus, "the stranded" lets us know that most people live somewhere else now, while Earth is being overrun. And, the game shows us where Marcus had his trial that would later put him in prison. Maybe the prequel ends with him being unable to save his dad and then he is locked up for 14yrs. I'm guessing the environment would be the same in the prequel, only it wouldn't be destroyed and run down.

[Spark]

A prequel could be good and they could do pretty much anything they wanted in it, as they haven't exactly overloaded this one with storyline.

This is the most addictive 360 title on Live that I've played since PGR, which is a good thing in many ways, and a bit of a bad thing in others.